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John Cleland

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Born:
1709
Died:
Jan. 23, 1789, London (aged 80)
Notable Works:
“Fanny Hill”
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John Cleland (born 1709—died Jan. 23, 1789, London) was an English novelist, known as the author of the notorious Fanny Hill; or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. After serving as a consul at Smyrna and later as an agent of the British East India Company in Bombay, Cleland became a penniless wanderer who drifted from place to place and was apparently confined several times in English debtors’ prisons. In such reduced circumstances, he wrote Fanny Hill (1748–49) for a fee of 20 guineas. An elegant, flowery work of pornography describing the activities of a London prostitute, this novel has ...(100 of 169 words)

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